Name - Pitohui

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:1042936 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Pitohui Less.

• Pitohui Lesson

• Pitohui Lesson 1831

• Pitohui Lesson 1830

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Recent Publications

• Melyrid beetles (Choresine): A putative source for the batrachotoxin alkaloids found in poison-dart frogs and toxic passerine birds.
• [The genus Pitohui (Lesson, 1830).]
• Polyphyletic origin of toxic Pitohui birds suggests widespread occurrence of toxicity in corvoid birds.
• The batrachotoxins with a protective function in birds.
• The role of toxic pitohuis in mixed-species flocks of lowland forest in Papua New Guinea.

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